A China state-controlled news site – the Global Times – has threatened ASML with long-term exclusion from the Chinese market if it complies with US restrictions on selling spares and maintaining machines already sold to Chinese chip companies. “If the Netherlands follows this strategy, it will exacerbate the widening rift in China-US and China-Netherlands relations “ said the Global Times ...

Sakana AI, a one year-old Tokyo startup founded by ex-Google researchers, has raised $137 million in a funding round led by Nvidia. Other investors are Khosla Ventures, New Enterprise Associates and Lux Capital. In January, Sakana raised $31 million from NTT, Sony,  Khosla and others. “The team at Sakana is helping spur the democratisation of AI in Japan by developing ...

After 25 years of operation IBM is to close its R&D units in China. The units, called the  China Development Lab (CDL) and China Systems Lab (CSL), were set up in 1999. Closing them will involve the loss of 1,000 jobs. IBM’s sales in China fell 19.3% last year. The China government has been implementing a policy called ‘Delete America’ ...

Verizon, the telecommunications company, and Skylo, a non-terrestrial network (NTN) service provider, have announced a partnership to launch a commercial direct-to-device messaging service via satellite. This will enable Verizon customers – starting this autumn, for customers on certain smartphones – to have access to emergency messaging and location sharing even when a terrestrial cellular network is not available. Next year, says ...

I’m not quite sure what a black hole means to a politician but the £22 billion black hole which the government is banging on about doesn’t really seem very significant. After all it is about the same amount as the price of a leading-edge fab, or two thirds of TSMC’s 2024 capex budget. If a private company can afford that, ...

The US’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is to integrate a cluster of Quantum Brilliance’s (QB’s) diamond-based quantum processing elements into its conventional supercomputers. “Parallel quantum computing holds potential for scientific discovery and industrial applications that require high-performance computing,” said ORNL director of quantum science Travis Humble. “Partnering with Quantum Brilliance allows us to explore effective integration with our existing ...

Three technologies will transform sales over the next decade, says Gartner: Emotion AI, machine sellers and digitally twinning  customers. “The common theme of these three technologies are their ability to predict, interpret and serve buyers’ needs and behaviours and to streamline and automate sales fulfilment, releasing sellers to focus on developing high value client relationships,” says Gartner’s  Guy Wood. Emotion ...

Only time will tell whether or not Nvidia’s current valuation is justified but one thing is certain: Its market capitalisation of roughly $3 trillion is based on expectations for future growth more than it is on current results. While Nvidia saw its revenue and profit grow at an extraordinary pace over the past year, it is still far from the ...

Intel’s 18A has been found wanting by Broadcom after it ran test wafers on the process, reports Reuters. According to the report, Broadcom got the wafers back from Intel last month and decided that the process was not yet viable for high volume production. “Intel 18A is powered on, healthy and yielding well, and we remain fully on track to ...

Scotland is welcoming its biggest ever space industry event next week: the inaugural Space-Comm Expo Scotland, at SEC Glasgow over 11-12 September. The organisers are expecting 3,000 delegates and 70 exhibitors, as well as 100 speakers including representatives from  the European Space Agency, the UK Space Agency, and Ministers from the UK and Scottish Governments. “There are currently an estimated ...